12/11/2024
Meet Keegan, one of our 2024-2025 Fellows! Keegan (he/they) is a first year Master of Information Student with the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and holds a diploma in Indigenous Community and Social Development from Georgian College and a Bachelor of Social Work from Toronto Metropolitain University. They have over a decade in international, national and grassroots Pride organizing experience (President of Fierte Simcoe Pride from 2020 - 2021, Regional Representative for Ontario with Fierte Canada Pride from 2020 - 2021, Regional Representative for Canada with InterPride from 2019 - 2020, and the Secretary of Fierte Simcoe Pride from 2017 - 2020). He has founded multiple community events that still occur annually (Annual Winter Feast, Trans March). From 2021 - 2024, Keegan was a Program Coordinator with a federally funded 2S-LGBTQ+ inclusion education program, developing workshops and providing virtual training to over 20,000 individuals. They are currently the lead and co-founder of the In Love and Leather Community Archive- a grassroots, q***r/trans initiative dedicated to processing the personal collections of q***r and trans older adults and elders. Since July 2024 he has been the Centre Coordinator for the Centre for Global Disability Studies, an interdisciplinary center of disability studies scholarship based out of the University of Toronto. He currently lives in downtown Toronto with his partner, three cats and a rapidly increasing collection of nordicware cookie stamps.
[Image Description: Close-up colour portrait of Keegan smiling. They are a white-bodied non-binary person and have long, curly brown hair with bangs. Two piercings on the right side of their lip and one in the bridge of their nose. He is wearing a grey, navy blue and white striped sweater.]